Union County courier. [volume] (Elk Point, Union County, D.T. [S.D.]) 187?-1913, 1887-11-02
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THERE were fifteen new cases Of yellow
fever in Tampa, Fla, the other day, and
one death, VIM. Morton. There are now
seventy eight cases under treatment, and
six cases critical. The We ,ther is hot and
sultry. registering 90 degrees in rooms.
The disease is spreading out into the
country adjacent to the town. There are
no signs OF abatement, and the outlook is
very disheartening.
ANTONIO INFANTEs, who ascended In Q
balloon at st. Louis, when 500 feet in the
air, was suddenly precipitated to the
ground by . collapse Of the balloon Death
resulted in few minutes.
JOHN PtTER MCCARTNEY, who was re.
leased from the Michigan City penitentiary
the other day, after confinement oi
eleven years, was once the acknowledged
chief of the most notorious counterfeiters
and safe. blowers in America. Immedi-
ately after his release he was arrested by q
United States marshal on an old charge ol
passing counterfeit money in southern
Illinois.
GEORGE E. COREY and Jack johnson,
the former charged with rape on his
daughter, and the latter with robbery,
broke Jail at Dakota City, Neb. They
were confined in steel cage, the door Of
which they pried open with railroad
spike and knocked hole in the brick wall
with stick of wood, using q blanket to
deaden the sound.
ACTING SECRETARY MULDRow has rem
dered decision rejecting the lists of So
lections made by the Northern Pacific
Railroad company of about 81, 900 acres of
land in Washington territory, on the
ground that the lands in question were not
within their grant.
The body Of man, cut to pieces and
packed in shoe box, was found on board
train on the Lehigh Valley railroad. II
is believed that the package was put on the
train at EImira, New York.
A GRAND banquet was given atl the Con.
tinental hotel in Paris to celebrate the an
niversary Of the Bartholdi statue, at which
Mr.. Blaine was present, but he looked
very pale and careworn. He made nc
speech, merely made few casual remarks
to three or four persons. NJ. Spuller, the
chairman, sat next to Mr.. Blaine and de-
ivered long address. he concluded by
proposing the health of President Cleve.
land, whereupon Mr.. Blaine turned paleI
still and touched his lips to his champagne
glass with q faint but sardonic smile.
There were about fifty persons pres ent. in
cluding Napoleon, Ney, Bartholdi Gounod,
McLane and Laboulayle. The banquet
was brilliant affair. Mr.. Blaine occupied
the seat of honor.
New YORK paper prints decidedly
fishy story to the effect that Jay Gould was
solicited to use bis inAuence in bshah oI
the Chicago anarehists, and SAaA h 60.
sequence Of his refusal 90 to do, he hes ~
ceived threatening letters for some tin
past that so terrified him that he determined
upon his European trip in order to be out
Of this country upon the day set for the ex-
ecution Of the condemned men.
GEN. CLINTON B. FINCH, the prohibi-
ton leader, said in an interview at Newark,
N. j., that he was not candidate for the
presidency, and would not be. He thought
the same candidates would try ii gain next
year-Blaine, Cleveland and st. John. He
said the prohibition candidate for presi-
dent would certainly receive at least ,0OO,-
600 votes. He bilieved Wolfe, of Pennsyl-
vania and Bascom, of Wisconsin, were the
most prominent possible candidates in
case st. John declined to run. If he did
run, Wolfe would likely be nominated for
ce-president.
WHILE Mrs. Huber, Of Cincinnati, waa
sitting alone and asleep BY her cooking
stove, some burning Goals set fire to her
clothing. She was found dead by neigh
bors who entered the room, attracted prob
ably by the fire, which was communicated
TO the floor where the unfortunate woman
had fallen from her chair.